New Senran Kagura Trailer Is Ridiculous

The new brawler is releasing in Japan on 3DS, but we have a feeling that the clothes-tearing schoolgirl theme may keep it off US shores.

Catherine releases tomorrow here in the US, and will offer a taste of some of the over-the-top sexuality inherent to a number of Japanese games and anime. But Catherine is certainly not the only game from Japanese shores with a similar…focus.

A new trailer for Senran Kagura just released for Japanese audiences. The game tells the story of a group of kunoichi (female ninjas) being trained in the art of killing at Hanzo Academy. When not bouncing around the school, the girls head out on high-speed side-scrolling brawling sequences, during which they occasionally lose some of their clothing.

If you're curious why the anime-styled action game from publisher Marvelous doesn't have a planned release in the US, the trailer should give you a pretty good idea.

I know I have watched too much Anime when I can understand some of what they're saying. That toppled with my very limited study of Japanese. Wooo.

Either way, on the Catherine note, I tried the Demo, and I had a hard time trying to navigate and go where I wanted and after 30 minutes of constant dying on the second chapter I had just about had it. This game looks way more fun in terms of Gameplay.

Japanese stuff is hilarious. You have to love it just for being so odd. Like you know they have more strict rules over there and yet the developers get away with some absurd things. Things that a US developer never could. A game that alluded to so many rather obscene sexual acts developed in the US would have Fox News all over it and people crying foul everywhere. Yet in Japan it's normal. Anime is like this all the time and it often just comes out of nowhere.

I see people saying that this stuff is weird, but I bet the Japanese think we're weird for playing games like Fallout 3 or something. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't mind giving this game a try, i'm already use to seeing fanservice in anime these days. I think its hilarious.